The NPDI is dedicated to making productive use of one of the world’s greatest collections of Natural Products. The NPDI provides microbial and plant extracts, fermentation optimization, purification chemistry to support bioassay driven fractionation, and structure elucidation. It houses a collection of >30,000 fungi and actinomycete microorganisms, and genomic DNA. This previously private collection of natural products is provided to qualified researchers in academia and industry. Research activity has lead to the discovery of novel molecules with biological activity and to the formation of new life sciences companies that will seek to commercialize discoveries centered on natural products. Businesses include those developing pharmaceutical, nutritional, flavor enhancing, cosmetic ingredient, agricultural, and animal health products.See more about Natural Products Discovery

A set of HPLC pre-fractionated plant samples have been generated. The initial set is derived from 100 “virgin” plant specimens, never screened at their prior Large Pharma home. Methanolic plant extracts were detannated (pvp), washed with hexanes, and purified by C8 HPLC to generate 24 fractions (100 x 24 = 2400 fractions = 25 plates). The samples are at 10 mg equiv/ml and are enriched materials allowing for a general classification, easy dereplication, analysis and evaluation of active materials. Clients who purchase this initial set can preselect specimens going forward. For the distribution of the number of samples per represented family please hit link below...
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We have isolated genomic DNA samples from our actinomycete culture collection. Current technology makes it possible to map out the synthetic potential of actinomycete organisms.See more about Genomic DNA

We have current stocks of these natural products for research purposes. They were generated from our microbial collection and can be produced in larger quantities as needed.
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Dedicated to making one of the world’s greatest collections of Natural Products, the former Merck and Schering-Plough natural products library, available to the scientific community.

NPDI is a division within the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute (BSBI), one of Pennsylvania’s most entrepreneurial non-profit research organizations. The NPDI was established in 2011 as a result of an unprecedented gift to the BSBI by Merck and Co. of its entire U.S. Natural Products Library and the Schering-Plough Legacy Culture Collection. Together, it is one of the largest, most diverse, best sourced, and carefully curated natural products collections in the world.

The Blumberg Institute is a Non-Profit 501(3c) Organization that is seeking donors to support the mining of this valuable collection for medical uses of interest to donors.

Natural Products and Human Health

Penicillin, Taxol, Avermectin and Lovastatin were all derived from plant and microbial extracts. Indeed, even today, half of newly approved medications have come from natural products.See how you can benefit from natural products.